Chickens are rad

Nobody said anything about not putting your all your chicks in one basket



Panama Red and Poncho scoping the area
The first egg! Before...

And after...

Chicken Love

Mom and Dad got some one-on-one chicken time when they came for a visit in August.

Awwww.....Mom and Dad on top of Mesa Verde

Dad got into some trouble with a crew of Giant Ute on the way back...

Notice the hat - Dad has gone local!

A birthday on the farm!

Twilight on the farm

More Veggie Glamour Shots

Harvest Season

One of our first CSAs
And one of our last
Salsa Makings

The Farm Grows!

Early Carrots

The famous flashy troutback lettuce!
Miles!
Greenhouse chockfull of tomatoes, peppers and zucchini
Eighteen rows of taters = lots of digging

Taters and Garlic

Farm Dog

Bodhi is slowly acclimating to the the grueling life of a farm dog.

Jitterbug and crew

Jitterbug checking out her new digs


I think that's Poncho?


Bodhi really likes the new arrivals

Death of a Queen

Four thousand bees arrived a couple weeks ago in a small wire cage with the Queen in her own private suite blocked off from the other bees by candy. The bees slowly eat the candy, allowing her to escape and giving time for the bees to get used to their new Queen's scent. Or at least that's what supposed to happen.

Dave built a sweet top bar hive in the back of his property along a stream for the little buggers. We shook the bees into their new house, along with the Queen still trapped in her tiny cage. I checked on her two days later and she was dead! Apparently there is a small cork that you have to take off to give the bees access to the candy. Bummed out, we ordered a new Queen via FedEx and left the sad little corpse of the first Queen in the hive. Two days later the new Queen and her retinue arrived but alas, when I went to take out the old Queen, she was alive and well! And, a bit angry to still be stuck in her cage. I let her out and the bees immediately surrounded her, which I hope is a good sign. I had no idea that bees played dead but apparently when the temperature is below 50 degrees their muscles freeze and they can't move.

Veggie Starts!

The starts spend the first two weeks of their little lives with me and Bodhi in the cabin before heading off to the seed greenhouse.

The first zucchini!


Lots of peppers

The first set of cabbage

Onions!

Off to the seed greenhouse

Life at Banga's Farm

It's been a super fun, dirty, amazing and inspiring month at the farm. There have been bees, duststorms, chicks, good folk, fun dancing, tortilla-making, seed starting, hiking, onion burying, and sheep shearing. I'm looking forward to the next five months!